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Cool Edit 96
What does everyone use for sound editing these days?
* IBM ThinkPad T41p/60. Lenovo T410/X210 where still somewhat fine. But these newer ultrabooks nowadays have less powerful specs than 5 year old notebooks. The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon isn't bad, but a far cry given it's ultrabook less powerful specs than an 5 year old high end notebook. And these shitty keyboard nowadays, give me back the old keyboard layout like grouped F1-F12 key, better placed Home/PgUp/PgDn/End…
I've had good luck finding old hardware in second stores in small towns. Like an entire Apple II (with drive, floppies, monitor) in Puerto Rico. I wished I had the space in my luggage. I have some programs on old floppies I wrote at my sons age that if live to show him.
2. Turbo Pascal for Windows (which I guess became Delphi)
3. C-Terp
Writing, with a pen. I never do it anymore, but it worked great until I got a PC, a Psion 5, and especially after my first Macbook. Since then I barely write with a pen, and if I do it's cramped.
College student here. I wish I could relate. My CS course exams in which you must write code..with a pen..on paper made me hate writing even more.
Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…
> Tap water ... > Paper bags at the grocery shop ... > A more silent neighbourhood ... Just out of curiosity, what area or country do you live in?
I haven't figured out if I changed or my neighbor's for loudness?
In my neighborhood, it seems like when ever the economy heats up, like in the Bay Area; residents order more junk from Amazon, trim everything, use blowers for just the sake of irritation, hire handymen who take a whole summer to put in a 10 X 20 deck, and are just irritating loud?
I'd rather have Metal Heads playing at level 11 than these hypocritical earthy home owners. I'm actually looking forward to a slight drop in the local economy. It's almost like they need a project, a package to be delivered daily--after all they would have to talk to each other without that daily distraction?
(I miss the Internet of pre 2008. Why? You could find more information for free.)
Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them. Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now aba…
inoreader.com
Yes, I know there was an open-source release. I couldn't get it to work.
RPN HP calculators: HP29C (my first one) and HP41C (did university with it). A long time ago, some demon soul from hell decided to kill them product lines. The world never was the same, afterwards.
They're dead? I just gave away my HP48 whilst cleaning house. :(
Now you may weep...
A/UX Commando "A/UX includes a utility called Commando (similar to a tool of the same name included with Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) to assist users with entering Unix commands. Opening a Unix executable file from the Finder opens a dialog box that allows the user to choose command-line options for the program using standard controls such as radio buttons and check boxes, and display the resulting command line a…
>commando ls
There were two ways to exit the dialog. One executed the command, the other entered it in your shell for further editing, copy-pasting in a script (in MPW shell, that copy-pasting wasn't even needed, as every shell window was a file), etc.
And even better: the shell (at least in MPW) knew about commando, so typing
>ls…
I may misremembered it, but IIRC, commando even parsed partial inputs to populate the dialog box when you opened it.
Thinking of MPW and the early Mac, I also miss the consistent distinction between return (the key to the right of the letter 'l' that starts a new line) and command-return or enter (on the numeric keypad, starts a command) that made it possible to enter multi-line text in input dialogs without living in the constant fear of dismissing the dialog early.
The Psion Series 3 handhelds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 A (tiny, but) usable, physical keyboard on a device that lasted _ages_, fit into a suit pocket and was eminently practical. The age of the PDA is long gone (heck, I'm typing this on an iPad mini), but we still haven't caught up with some of its best bits.
Try the Pyra mini computer. https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
For one thing the dimensions: it is a real brick and I don't understand why that is in 2016. All the flip-top Sharp Zaurii SL-Cxxxx were at least 5mm slimmer, and they were made a good ten years ago.
Then there is the keyboard, which is pushed all the way to the bottom edge, which makes it difficult type when handheld. It is clearly optimized for gaming, with prominent space given over to joystick controls. It lacks a bottom row containing a spacebar, which makes for awkward typing.